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their arguments made no sense to us. such well-worn phrases such as tax cuts pay for themselves, climate change is improving and government-run health care doesn't work. they were repeated over and over again. republican arguments along these lines seemed incomprehensible to democrats just as ours seemed misguiding to them. the evidence that mattered to us made no difference to them. the free market principles they took as given conflicted with the information that we took every day from our constituents and the economists that we consulted. news media preoccupation with lack of civility missed the point. i traveled with republican members of congress to iraq and afghanistan and enjoyed their company. we worked out together in the house gym. still, more time socializing with each other would not have closed the chasm between our competing views of the world and the role of government. it's those world views and the lack of come prehence -- comprehension on both sides that cripple the capacity of congress to make bipartis
their arguments made no sense to us. such well-worn phrases such as tax cuts pay for themselves, climate change is improving and government-run health care doesn't work. they were repeated over and over again. republican arguments along these lines seemed incomprehensible to democrats just as ours seemed misguiding to them. the evidence that mattered to us made no difference to them. the free market principles they took as given conflicted with the information that we took every day from our...
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he had three uses for cigars. the first was the sheer pleasure, the enjoyment of the flavor of a goodie garre and the -- goodie garre and the fever of relaxation that the smoke brings. the second was as a trademark. sorry. churchill was too shrewd a politician not to realize that his cigar had become an iconic symbol of his grit in the face of adversity. just as fdr's jaunty cigarette holder had become the american president's symbol. touring a devastated area of london, cigar clenched between his teeth or in his hand as he waved at the crowds somehow showed that both he and britain were indomitable. the third use was to extend the length of dinners at which he planned to sell his policy and to learn from statesmen, scientist, soldiers, friends and opponents. after dinner light a good, long cigar and pass around others from his humidors, and he'd recount on another few hours of good talk at a time when others were exhausted, but he was at his best. this was not always appreciated by the war-weary admirals and gene
he had three uses for cigars. the first was the sheer pleasure, the enjoyment of the flavor of a goodie garre and the -- goodie garre and the fever of relaxation that the smoke brings. the second was as a trademark. sorry. churchill was too shrewd a politician not to realize that his cigar had become an iconic symbol of his grit in the face of adversity. just as fdr's jaunty cigarette holder had become the american president's symbol. touring a devastated area of london, cigar clenched between...
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sometimes used well it can be a useful tool, but i think more often than not it's used as an evasion. >> thank you. the united states has not won a war since 1945. this combat looks an awful lot like vietnam. there's no difference between the republicans and the democrats except ron paul. i'm wondering, are we ever going to see the united states completely pull out of the mideast? it's leading some people to think that we might be there for oil or minerals or even the heroin trade, for that matter. and -- >> heroin trade? >> so i'm really concerned about this. >> well, no, you raise a good point. world war ii is, actually, in the annals of military history since and going way back, world war ii is kind of an anomaly. there really haven't been a lot of wars in history that lead to the total surrender of the enemy. most wars, and particularly the kinds of wars that we're getting involved in now, you know, rightly or wrongly end with some kind of negotiation or some kind of division of power or some new power arrangement between, you know, some kind of coalition. and so it is uncomfortab
sometimes used well it can be a useful tool, but i think more often than not it's used as an evasion. >> thank you. the united states has not won a war since 1945. this combat looks an awful lot like vietnam. there's no difference between the republicans and the democrats except ron paul. i'm wondering, are we ever going to see the united states completely pull out of the mideast? it's leading some people to think that we might be there for oil or minerals or even the heroin trade, for...
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like us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv or follow us on twitter at booktv. you can also visit our website at booktv.org and click on news about books. booktv interviewed jeffrey macris about his book, "the politics and security of the gulf." this is part of booktv's college college series. it is about 20 minutes long. >> host: jeffrey macris, what is your title mean? >> welcome we represent military professors as a hybrid, adjoining of the professional officer corps, and the professional educators at the naval academy. i spent the first half of my naval career flying aircraft to the u.s. navy. about 10 years ago, i transitioned over to academia. where i had an out standing opportunity to go to school where i specialize in middle eastern history. >> host: now an author, "the politics and security of the gulf" is the name of your book. that's a big topic, isn't it? >> guest: yes, it is. the united states has been involved in three hot wars. it is a big topic that needs to be discussed and investigated. which is part of the reason why we took on this topic. >>
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you don't want to be spending a lot of money for results deal neither country in that quadra and with us was luxembourg. i have no idea what they're doing. the problem is for decades now people have been pushing the idea to fix the system is more money more many more money. but i knew firsthand that was not the case weavers' spending more money than any of your jurisdiction yet results were at the bottom with districts right across the river in newark, new jersey spending $22,000 per kid yet operating with the full proficiency in the single digits so to throw more money into a broken system with a different result is faulty. we have to have the transparency where the dollars are going to stop spending money on things that have no impact on kids. when i was in washington d.c. the had a digit of $1 billion per year. of that, a 403, 403 million went into the schools so the majority of the money went into a bloated bureaucracy. that is not where you have the impact it has the impact in the classroom not from the district itself salt and tell lee should delight current and what kind of return
you don't want to be spending a lot of money for results deal neither country in that quadra and with us was luxembourg. i have no idea what they're doing. the problem is for decades now people have been pushing the idea to fix the system is more money more many more money. but i knew firsthand that was not the case weavers' spending more money than any of your jurisdiction yet results were at the bottom with districts right across the river in newark, new jersey spending $22,000 per kid yet...
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the leverage that the church uses used to be there were children in scientology. they used to be on board ships. they cause a lot of trouble. and hubbard have a theory that children are not different from adults, they are just small. and, therefore, they should be treated as you would treat an adult, and so when a child misbehaved, he came up with one of his punishment was to put them in the chain locker. that's where the anchor chain is stored, and it's cold and dark and dank. and they would be fed but they were not allowed out to go to the bathroom or go to sleep or anything. just put in there for days and some of them for weeks. he actually put -- a deaf girl in the hopes she would regain her hearing. so the treatment of children became huge issue early on and finally, it was decided we can't have them. we can't have kids here because they had a ranch were children, and the children essentially built their own dormitories and gave themselves going and so on. very, very little adult supervision. so it came to pass that the decision was made no more kids, which m
the leverage that the church uses used to be there were children in scientology. they used to be on board ships. they cause a lot of trouble. and hubbard have a theory that children are not different from adults, they are just small. and, therefore, they should be treated as you would treat an adult, and so when a child misbehaved, he came up with one of his punishment was to put them in the chain locker. that's where the anchor chain is stored, and it's cold and dark and dank. and they would...
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[applause] the michelle rhee we thank you for joining us and we know you had some busy-- pierce morgan, head john stuart, as cnn and we have our old friend here from c-span filming this event so people from the united states can benefit from what you have to say. just to kickstart how did you come up with a fascinating and interesting book "radical" and where does the name come from? >> guest: i think the genesis of the name is interesting that when i first got to d.c. fellow was performing in the most defunct glad -- dysfunctional district in the nation that was a widely known truce. i did things that i thought were obvious for school districts in that state, a closing low performing schools, moving out in the affected employees, cutting the bureaucracy in half and as i was taking these steps people started to say she is a firebrand, a radical, a controversial and i thought really? finally i said if reconnaissance to a dysfunctional system makes me a radical then i am okay without. that was embracing that concept for the name of the book. >> host: some people call you anti-teacher but
[applause] the michelle rhee we thank you for joining us and we know you had some busy-- pierce morgan, head john stuart, as cnn and we have our old friend here from c-span filming this event so people from the united states can benefit from what you have to say. just to kickstart how did you come up with a fascinating and interesting book "radical" and where does the name come from? >> guest: i think the genesis of the name is interesting that when i first got to d.c. fellow...
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i've used a hatchet to blaze a trail so he would know how to get back. this is who lincoln has to go up against. [laughter] he is actually very successful. he has the biggest majority in the district, bigger than baker's majority and hardin's majority, now he has a gear and half until he is sworn in. so he continues to go to court, he continues to try these cases and handle cases. the last case that he handles before he heads to washington is a slave case. this is going to be very important when we see where the wilderness act. so there was a slave in the illinois courts, she was trying to bring him back to kentucky. his entire life he is exposed to slavery. he was born in kentucky, which was basically america's first highly if this is something that is very familiar to him. he sees the biggest slave market in north america and he sees the brutality of of slavery and he wishes it would end, but he also recognizes that there are laws in place. and so he represented mr. madsen. you would never see something like this from lincoln after he leaves congress.
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that is what's used for her devotion. she liked to read books by religious leaders, which were very interesting. they were so far from the i am so much better than you are type above. it would be let's look at the bigger picture, certain things that we all have in common, and certainly, she was a very tolerant person. some of the books she liked or gothic -- they were gothic romance. those were books that had pretty racy storylines. we know that she read them because her granddaughter said she did. and she liked them. and in fact, i do believe that the plantation was named for one of the states in the book. we see it in her life as well. the kind of loyalty and non-judgmental mess. nathaniel greene was one of george washington's favorites. he was the general that he could count on to be loyal, to do what he said, to move fast when he needed to move fast. to hold still when he needed to hold still. washington was very fond of his wife, who is a very young and flighty and foolish quarrel. she loved to dance. she loves to fl
that is what's used for her devotion. she liked to read books by religious leaders, which were very interesting. they were so far from the i am so much better than you are type above. it would be let's look at the bigger picture, certain things that we all have in common, and certainly, she was a very tolerant person. some of the books she liked or gothic -- they were gothic romance. those were books that had pretty racy storylines. we know that she read them because her granddaughter said she...
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thank you for being with us live. if you are in c-span or highland park figure for joining us and those who came to be a part of us as well. also your publishers and your support helps the public bringing great authors like this. >> this bookstore which i discovered a few years ago is a national treasure and enormously important. i am thrilled we got to do this here. >> you heard gramm smith was here for abraham lincoln vampire hunter andrews said i need to follow that up. >> that is where i got the idea to launch here. [laughter] >> i think the staff and without you we could not make these shows success to. [applause] >> thank you very much it is the pleasure to be here, i am honored to deliver the lecture. my greatest books, i have to confess it is my only book. [laughter] i spent 30 years going to saudi arabia as day editor talking to officials about oil, iraq, iran, u.s., geopo litical issues. when i return all -- retired from the "journal" one thing i was interested in doing with my new found time was trying to u
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it wasn't the rest of the world doing it to us. it was us doing it to the rest of the world, and that's my answer. if steve was here to why i didn't blame these international trade imbalances for the crisis. >> my name is can be and i'm -- my name is ken and i'm an economist. >> as opposed to an ordinary person. >> that's what i'm sometimes told. let me offer a hypothesis for your comment. at the time that the obama administration was trying to determine the size they for the deficit for the stimulus package there were expectations if they didn't do anything the amount of gdp decline would be at a certain level. in fact, however, the trajectory was far, far steeper, and, therefore, a primary criticism of the stimulus package is not that it was too large but it was too small. >> i half agree with that and let me explain. the agree part is -- let me just put on my economist hat because that's what i am. if you look at the perils facing us and what had happened already, what was likely to happen, a larger fiscal stimulus was called fo
it wasn't the rest of the world doing it to us. it was us doing it to the rest of the world, and that's my answer. if steve was here to why i didn't blame these international trade imbalances for the crisis. >> my name is can be and i'm -- my name is ken and i'm an economist. >> as opposed to an ordinary person. >> that's what i'm sometimes told. let me offer a hypothesis for your comment. at the time that the obama administration was trying to determine the size they for the...
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we're honored to have you with us. organizing this conference with 25 different sessions is really quite a lot of work, so i want to be gained by thinking the organizers of the congress for all they've done. i work with a top-flight team in the office of the chief economist. i particularly want to thank our chief economist, joe glauber and of course all the great the work they've done. they plan to very full days. i know we are going to learn a lot. along with the traditional commodity and food price outlooks, this year's program emphasizes the many ways agriculture must manage risk from finances to natural resources to transportation. one of the things i'm really excited about in this particular program this year is more time spent on certain vegetables, which are increasing importance in american agriculture and diet and we see them center stage in the sears outlook and that that futuristic thing. i also really excited to be here becaus h
we're honored to have you with us. organizing this conference with 25 different sessions is really quite a lot of work, so i want to be gained by thinking the organizers of the congress for all they've done. i work with a top-flight team in the office of the chief economist. i particularly want to thank our chief economist, joe glauber and of course all the great the work they've done. they plan to very full days. i know we are going to learn a lot. along with the traditional commodity and food...
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you hold us up. that is the key five that i won't have time to formally say thank-you and a good buy a 2 miles so i will just day how eloquent his little segue introductions have been and tells all the rest of you for coming and i am supposed to read something. i was fretting about what that would be. i will of reid from the end of the prologue. with of the things i was trying to use stress in the talks that i gave yesterday and the panel from the day before it is for all of the undeniable, appalling, and a dark side of ernest hemingway there is also the light, a bone of generosity and sometimes it came out best not his own child necessarily but who would not responded to do that? piece seemed kahane to respond to it a special way i was thinking of reading a key west passage. know that would be like a piece of coal to newcastle. so i will just read this little moment from the end of the prologue and indeed the end of ernest hemingway's life, when everything is lost, but there is still something there
you hold us up. that is the key five that i won't have time to formally say thank-you and a good buy a 2 miles so i will just day how eloquent his little segue introductions have been and tells all the rest of you for coming and i am supposed to read something. i was fretting about what that would be. i will of reid from the end of the prologue. with of the things i was trying to use stress in the talks that i gave yesterday and the panel from the day before it is for all of the undeniable,...
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he was using the services of a professional woman. if you imagine lincoln upstairs trying to mind his own business, we can basically says, have to have a woman. and here is what appears to have happened. it appears that he asked for a letter of introduction. but we have pieced together is maybe $3 difference, which is a lot of money. and the prostitute currently charges them $5. which was an enormous amount money. once she said you could pay me later where this depends, she ran out the door. in this case, there is not a happy ending. even with abraham lincoln. what i thought i would do in the main body of my remarks is tell a couple of my favorite stories. more importantly about presidential character. many involve our 24th and important president, grover cleveland. he fathered a child out of wedlock. she might have been a prostitute. cleveland was a bachelor. fathering a child seem like the thing to do at a time. a group of very righteous preachers started a campaign that no woman in the country would not pay attention here. it becam
he was using the services of a professional woman. if you imagine lincoln upstairs trying to mind his own business, we can basically says, have to have a woman. and here is what appears to have happened. it appears that he asked for a letter of introduction. but we have pieced together is maybe $3 difference, which is a lot of money. and the prostitute currently charges them $5. which was an enormous amount money. once she said you could pay me later where this depends, she ran out the door. in...
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like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch video and get up to date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. here's a look at the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. please let us know about book fairs in your area. post them at facebook.com/booktv. or e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >>> arthur goes on trial of december of 1835. he's eager to win a conviction. by this time mrs. thornton has come forward and come to the defense of her allegedly asal i can't. she said in the trial that arthur never lifted the action. ax. she felt safe in his presence. that he was just drunk and that she wanted the whole thing to go away. he was in plaqueble. he didn't listen. he managed to get other people to override the testimony. arthur is convicted and there's only oneishment for that, which is the death penalty. capital punishment. and so arthur bowen goes on to death row, and in january of 1836 sentenced to die in a month. and so with the clock ticking mrs. thornton does something even more unbelievable. i
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they come to our court looking to meet with us and talk to us and to each of us to learn from each other. and i travel. i travel to law school. but i want to reach out and teach people about the law and about helen so passionate about what i do. if in one meeting with people i can get them to understand our legal system below the better i hope that they become better citizens , more active citizens working in the community and improving for everyone. so we are busy on lots of different levels, not just being in the courtroom. the hours that lawyers have argued cases before us, it is a microcosm of the work that we put into it. >> the most popular question submitted was how did the justices get a long? [laughter] now, i know that relations among you all are deeply collegial, so i am wondering, what other conference rituals and the ways you all build relationships? >> its starts with respect. if you comment to this process appreciating that every single justice on the court has a passion and a love for the constitution and our country that is equal to mine menino that if you accept that as
they come to our court looking to meet with us and talk to us and to each of us to learn from each other. and i travel. i travel to law school. but i want to reach out and teach people about the law and about helen so passionate about what i do. if in one meeting with people i can get them to understand our legal system below the better i hope that they become better citizens , more active citizens working in the community and improving for everyone. so we are busy on lots of different levels,...
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if we were in some other court where you could use conspiracy conspiracy would be a useful mechanism. have you considered whether it using the military tribunals, a dichotomize choice, military tribunals, we better off building article i courts that would have been tailor-made to do this job, stands by article iii judges on t catch service and could build a system that could have done this. we are 12 years into the process and haven't made much progress. we have been to the supreme court three times but nothing like the actual prosecution of significant numbers of people seems to be happening. >> those are great questions. let me first address the conspiracy point. early on after the u.s. started taking prisoners and getting them from various means, directly capturing them or getting them turned over by allies or a bounty or what have you, the question arose about how to prosecute them and the lack of evidence against them force committing specific acts was a problem and it was discussed in the justice department to make membership in al qaeda or the taliban itself a crime. but that w
if we were in some other court where you could use conspiracy conspiracy would be a useful mechanism. have you considered whether it using the military tribunals, a dichotomize choice, military tribunals, we better off building article i courts that would have been tailor-made to do this job, stands by article iii judges on t catch service and could build a system that could have done this. we are 12 years into the process and haven't made much progress. we have been to the supreme court three...
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bush and we are fortunate to be the school that makes us a&m. [applause] >>> book tv is on the road in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania, and we are interviewing some professors who also happened to the authors and we want to introduce you to the dean of the university pennsylvania school of social policy and practice. this is richard on your screen. one of his books, his most recent is called "the third fly on government programs don't work and a blueprint for change." and doctor i'm here from the government and i am here to help you is that not true? >> not true. >> why not? >> because most government social programs, which is designed to help people don't actually help people and in some instances it is a little more than i hate saying this about viet do good of full employment act and lots of people would like to help but at the end of the day if you look at whether the needle has been moved and people have been held by substantial government programs and substantial amounts of money, the bottomline is very rarely are people hel
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they tell what was useful for the boat, what they call chapter history. the remaining members of the chapters that can't talk about work they didn't create a collective account and memories if you do in a historical work very piecemeal. was interesting about the chapter history as one person was saying remember this in the other person to fill in for corrected with these sorts of things. there's also lots of young people. there were scholars like myself, also young people interested and were activists who are interested in legacy of the parties. so it's a very eclectic dynamic, interesting setting. postcodes do we need and bobby seale is still alive? >> guest: kiwi is deceased. he was killed in the 1980s. bobby seale is it best today, still speaking about the black panthers were on a regular basis. >> host: and why did the body disband? >> guest: several reasons. one was the fbi's counterintelligence programs, which was quite successful in doing a few things. installing provocateurs within the party that created some discord that exists now in the party b
they tell what was useful for the boat, what they call chapter history. the remaining members of the chapters that can't talk about work they didn't create a collective account and memories if you do in a historical work very piecemeal. was interesting about the chapter history as one person was saying remember this in the other person to fill in for corrected with these sorts of things. there's also lots of young people. there were scholars like myself, also young people interested and were...
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if not us? so we've got to begin somewhere, and so i encourage you to check out my web site for a list of organizations and resources, um, think about forming your own student organization here and then, also, get together with like-minded souls and think seriously about what kinds of organizations need to be built, perhaps, you know, in your own community to do the work that lies ahead. so thank you for your question. >> thank you. >> yes, um, i would just like to thank you for your presentation. it was very insightful. the question i would like to ask is that, um, overall typically when many young persons are arrested for drugs, they tend to level a lot of charges against them. one such charge which is very difficult to beat is conspiracy. >> uh-huh. yes. >> conspiracy to sell drugs. and a barber of mine in jamaica who was deported told me that conspiracy is one of the hard charges to beat. what sort of solutions do you propose to -- i don't know if to remove such a charge from the book? becau
if not us? so we've got to begin somewhere, and so i encourage you to check out my web site for a list of organizations and resources, um, think about forming your own student organization here and then, also, get together with like-minded souls and think seriously about what kinds of organizations need to be built, perhaps, you know, in your own community to do the work that lies ahead. so thank you for your question. >> thank you. >> yes, um, i would just like to thank you for...
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at one dairy described with great exuberance the naval battle using wine glasses and decanters to show the position of the ships and blowing smoke from his cigar to imitate the cannon fire. it would have been wonderful to have been there. the topic at churchill's table were wide-ranging, and cold, exploding harbors, movies, that hamilton woman was a great favorite of churchill's, and politics. his curiosity was boundless. many of his guests wrote to friends or recorded in their diaries his conversations, repeated his anecdotes and commented on the foodie served. in addition i found hundreds of bills for dinner she gave at hundred hotels, the ritz, guest lists, amended wine lists, many letters from churchill complaining about overbilling, banking his friends for gifts of food and wine, ringing generous tips for hotel waiters call in the archives, all set out in my book. i have produced many of the menus in my book in case any of you want to try to duplicate one or two of them at a special party at home. the wine list might be harder for you to replicate since so many decades have passed
at one dairy described with great exuberance the naval battle using wine glasses and decanters to show the position of the ships and blowing smoke from his cigar to imitate the cannon fire. it would have been wonderful to have been there. the topic at churchill's table were wide-ranging, and cold, exploding harbors, movies, that hamilton woman was a great favorite of churchill's, and politics. his curiosity was boundless. many of his guests wrote to friends or recorded in their diaries his...
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being in a bookstore on a friday night people, okay so all of us really, all of us. i want to say the most important thing of all and it will be the most important thing i say tonight is thank you. everything i say after that we'll be will be straight downhill and i will tell you some of this is a big thank yous to the end. but we are here to talk about is the "the fifth assassin." people say what you where do you get your ideas for the book? i will tell you about this. nobody gets crazier e-mailed to me. the last time i was asked at the store for the inner circle someone brought me the holy grail. is that guy here? i have to ask first. he's not here? then let's talk about him because here's what happened. i promise you this is true. there was standing right of there and he comes up to me earlier and he is like red, do you want to see the holy grail? he had the crazy eyes going back and forth and i'm like you brought the holy grail all the way to barnes & noble how do i not say yes? in that i'll he takes out the holy grail. he pulls it out the holy grail. and he says
being in a bookstore on a friday night people, okay so all of us really, all of us. i want to say the most important thing of all and it will be the most important thing i say tonight is thank you. everything i say after that we'll be will be straight downhill and i will tell you some of this is a big thank yous to the end. but we are here to talk about is the "the fifth assassin." people say what you where do you get your ideas for the book? i will tell you about this. nobody gets...
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thank you for joining us. [applause] i am excited that mayor denise parker and -- are here with us tonight. [applause] denise parker is one of my heroes, one of my favorite people and a touristic mayor. please stand mayor and first lady cathy. [applause] you can see past presentations of the progressive forum on our web site, great minds such as jane goodall, richard leahy, bill moyers and supreme court justice john paul stevens. go to our web site at progressive form houston.org. that is progressive forum houston.org. we are pleased to give a book to every attendee tonight. just show your ticket in the distribution table in the grand foyer. additional books are also on sale in the grand foyer by the bookshop. after justice sotomayor's presentation presentations you would join me for a q&a. i should say a supreme court rules don't allow us to discuss court cases of the past, present or future but we will delve deeply into her fascinating story. justice sotomayor will sign books, and greet fans in the grand foy
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that's kind of falling away with people using it for international law today. that's my limited understanding of it but you're right, they work together. >> had to do with a lot of other things as well, including how to treat guerrillas in guerrilla warfare, behavior of occupation troops in their relationship with civilians. so it's not just -- >> all of that part has endured. >> now, had a question for james mcpherson, i read in your book something interesting about at the start of the war, very early on, how both side didn't -- believed the war wouldn't last long. the rebelled and the yankees going bo it, even before sumpter, it would be relatively short skirmish, ask that's -- they were going to squash each other, and both things entoured starting with bull run and -- shen anyone dough -- and at the rfk of sounding tyrannical. was there evidence to suggest that perhaps the eman's make proclamation was issued by abraham lincoln as props a bold measure to really speed up the war by way of total war versus a head rush tolds total war, and this perhaps could be
that's kind of falling away with people using it for international law today. that's my limited understanding of it but you're right, they work together. >> had to do with a lot of other things as well, including how to treat guerrillas in guerrilla warfare, behavior of occupation troops in their relationship with civilians. so it's not just -- >> all of that part has endured. >> now, had a question for james mcpherson, i read in your book something interesting about at the...
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you can't tweet us at booktv, comment on facebook wall, or send us an e-mail. tv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> the intense discussions, arguments within "national review" that i alluded to were primarily not totally but primarily in the '60s as they were still think that way your the conservative movement was still jelling. in the 1970s, russia's focus is on, it initially on the possibility of actually replacing the republican party with a new conservative party. i found a letter in which he said to a friend my problem, about 1975, my problem with the republican party isn't that it's not conservative enough. it's that it isn't big enough. again, he wanted to win. and republicans after watergate in the mid '70s were just in terrible shape. i won't recite the details but, you know, a lot of them probably felt they were back where they were back in the 1930s. not only minority part but a small minority part. russia wants to take this opportunity to start a new conservative party. not rigidly conservative but consciously conservative. one in which
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can you give us a couple of examples? it is so mind-boggling. >> people do not realize how bad it dodd-frank is. it is a very conscious attitude by status to take this over. if you want to control an economy, control the capital. the way to do it safely is to do it in the bathroom. if you can blame somebody else, it's a great way to do it. [inaudible] they hadn't made any big moves yet. the government can also stop allocation. they control capital ratios we had to have kappas much capital. that is exactly what they want, green energy. they can subsidize it by having the social purposes, whatever that means. today is a mechanism where they can control allocations in the united states. they have also set up this, where we are going to have massive consolidation. the regulatory cost structure is frustrating. it makes you angry. but you can do it. you have to think about things that are productive and running a business and making the bureaucrats happy. to me, it is basically part of the community every day. the micromanageme
can you give us a couple of examples? it is so mind-boggling. >> people do not realize how bad it dodd-frank is. it is a very conscious attitude by status to take this over. if you want to control an economy, control the capital. the way to do it safely is to do it in the bathroom. if you can blame somebody else, it's a great way to do it. [inaudible] they hadn't made any big moves yet. the government can also stop allocation. they control capital ratios we had to have kappas much...
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communities are a strength for us. that bill was passed in 1965. i guarantee you that not one person in 100 who studies the civil rights movement understands that it is a third pillar within the building rights act of 1965 to build a structure that will be not only a great strength, but a great inspiration. it is essential for diversity and we have to learn how to get along with one another. we are unconscious to a lot of these things that are consequences of the freedom set in motion by this movement that struggle for eight years. finally he gets a nobel the nobel prize, and all of his staff says let's do this, and he says no, next week. and then he is back in jail. the mountaintop is nice, but the valley called. we are all blessed by that, but we are unconscious about it. the example of it, the example that i want to give you as to how great i think the disconnect is, is that george wallace made that speech in 1953, and he could not prevent any of these great tides are coming. if you have a daughter and you want your
communities are a strength for us. that bill was passed in 1965. i guarantee you that not one person in 100 who studies the civil rights movement understands that it is a third pillar within the building rights act of 1965 to build a structure that will be not only a great strength, but a great inspiration. it is essential for diversity and we have to learn how to get along with one another. we are unconscious to a lot of these things that are consequences of the freedom set in motion by this...
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i think it is useful. these deeper cultural and political trends and deeper conflict within the american psyche, it is more responsible than gerrymandering. the reason i say that is you get pretty much the same kind of politics in the u.s. senate we cannot gerrymander the district. two per state, and in governor's races. governors represent the entire state. it is not about distance, but in congressional races and in state legislative races it can be a factor. and both parties have become very sophisticated choosing there voters instead of having the voters choose them. and so i believe generally bipartisan commissions. but like to see it all run by separate commissions with judicial review rather than have it be done by state legislature. and have it done only once in a decade. we have already talked in virginia about doing what taxes did under tom delay a few years back. that is just poisonous. transparent, if you do if it won such as census comes in and then you get a different majority in the legislatu
i think it is useful. these deeper cultural and political trends and deeper conflict within the american psyche, it is more responsible than gerrymandering. the reason i say that is you get pretty much the same kind of politics in the u.s. senate we cannot gerrymander the district. two per state, and in governor's races. governors represent the entire state. it is not about distance, but in congressional races and in state legislative races it can be a factor. and both parties have become very...
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how do they look at us? and as i speak about saudi arabia, everyone constantly asks me, why did you do that? why did you spend five years month after month going there? dressed in my long black -- my editor asked me that actually when i turned in the manuscript. she said, you know, why did you do this? and i said, because it's interesting that and she said, harris is interesting. interesting. [laughter] so why did you do this? you know, make me understand. that was her only editing going on the book. so i will try to make you understand why i found it both fascinating and important. saudi arabia is probably the strangest country you will never see. it is so different from our own. a woman and there never reaches the age of maturity. she is always under the control of some man. she cannot go to her son's school. she cannot even see her son graduate. she obviously doesn't drive. we all know that. she doesn't appear in public without being covered. and you know, when the worst situation, she is simply chattel f
how do they look at us? and as i speak about saudi arabia, everyone constantly asks me, why did you do that? why did you spend five years month after month going there? dressed in my long black -- my editor asked me that actually when i turned in the manuscript. she said, you know, why did you do this? and i said, because it's interesting that and she said, harris is interesting. interesting. [laughter] so why did you do this? you know, make me understand. that was her only editing going on the...
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the end result shouldn't surprise us. it's this spiral of expanding that, welfare, regulation that politicians at the expanding welfare beneficiaries have any desire to stop insulting skits about that there's no alternative. but there's a political problem because unfortunately in democracies in which many people see the state as the primary provider of economic security, meaningful restraint of government intervention and spend name is very politically difficult. why? is anyone who promises to try and reduce the scope of intervention in real terms is in many respects at a severe electoral disadvantage. at luxembourg's prime minister jean-claude junker famously lamented in 2007, quote, we all know what we have to do, but we don't know how to get reelected once we have done it, end quote. in other words, if enough people in a democracy what security through the state regardless of cost, capacity politicians to oppose desires of 51% of the population is very limited. because to resist is to court electoral rejection rsp sta
the end result shouldn't surprise us. it's this spiral of expanding that, welfare, regulation that politicians at the expanding welfare beneficiaries have any desire to stop insulting skits about that there's no alternative. but there's a political problem because unfortunately in democracies in which many people see the state as the primary provider of economic security, meaningful restraint of government intervention and spend name is very politically difficult. why? is anyone who promises to...
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send us an e-mail at the tv at c-span.org or tweak us at twitter.com/booktv. now on booktv, john allison argues that government incentives and regulation caused the 2008 claps and says that to improve the economy, we need to opt pure free-market policies. it is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here. i would like to congratulate heritage on the success that they have had. we did it. this is a pattern we have going forward and the purpose is to talk about my book, which is "the financial crisis and the free market cure." people ask me my i wrote the book. the basic answer is i thought it would be interesting to have somebody who knew what he was talking about write about thinking. because if you look to the academics to some degree, they don't know what they are talking about. [laughter] i think it's very important to undo a myth. these myths become destructive. the method they created is that it was caused by the deregulation on wall street. welcome to the simple fact is that this was not deregulated. we have the privacy act and
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this document, which you can get at the archive does not use the word freedom, does not use the word democracy. it does not talk about regime types. it doesn't talk about radical islam. as has been said access to persian gulf oil to national interests. hostages in iran destroyed ericsson david, that's reason enough to be wary of anything more. this context matters for understand why spread american what it should do more in response to iraq's invasion for hussein did not threaten us and mention it for the long-range of oil. moreover, the middle east is not an appealing place for those in american politics were short and long-term history. take james baker who had the spine of vice presidents for decades -- for years, but more importantly among the closest friends for decades. he was secretary of state and upon hearing the news contemplating that getting back to washington. i know you're aware of the fact that this has all the ingredients that is brought down three of the last five presidents, and hostage crisis, bodybag and a full-fledged economic recession caused a $40 oil, end quot
this document, which you can get at the archive does not use the word freedom, does not use the word democracy. it does not talk about regime types. it doesn't talk about radical islam. as has been said access to persian gulf oil to national interests. hostages in iran destroyed ericsson david, that's reason enough to be wary of anything more. this context matters for understand why spread american what it should do more in response to iraq's invasion for hussein did not threaten us and mention...
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[laughter] so just, i pity all of us really, all of us. um, i want to say the most important thing of all. it will be, i promise, the most important thing i will say tonight, and that is thank you. everything i say after that will be straight downhill, and i'll tell you, i'll save some of the specific thank yous for the end. what we're here to talk about is "the fifth assassin," and people always say where do you get your ideas for books? i'll tell you about this store. because of dakota, no one gets crazier mail than me. like, the last time i was at this store for the inner circle, someone brought me the holy grail, okay? is that guy here? is the guy -- i have to ask first. he's not here? then let's talk about him, okay? [laughter] here's what happens. i'm not joking you, i promise you this is true. i was standing over there, and he comes up to early, and he's like, brad, and i'm like, yeah, and he says do you want to see the holy grail? and he has the crazy eyes, and i'm like you brought the holy grail all the way to barnes & noble, how
[laughter] so just, i pity all of us really, all of us. um, i want to say the most important thing of all. it will be, i promise, the most important thing i will say tonight, and that is thank you. everything i say after that will be straight downhill, and i'll tell you, i'll save some of the specific thank yous for the end. what we're here to talk about is "the fifth assassin," and people always say where do you get your ideas for books? i'll tell you about this store. because of...
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you can tweak us on booktv, comment on our facebook call or send us an e-mail, booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> now on c-span2 we bring you booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. here are some programs to look out for this weekend. at 5:00 p.m. eastern, ben shapiro argues liberals believe their competition discouraging political debate. at 2:00 a.m. michele alexander opines that policies from the 70s for and acted to push back gains made during the civil-rights movement. on sunday with recent policy debates on immigration we bring you stories from immigrants who share their experiences on booktv at 4:00 p.m. eastern. at 11:00 p.m. sunday melvin goodman argues the government is spending excessively on defense making us less secure. watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv. for complete schedule visit booktv.org. up next on booktv cita stelzer talks about the dinner hosted by winston churchill during and after world war ii which were used to persuade world leaders to adopt his position on various matters. it is about 40 minutes. >> good even
you can tweak us on booktv, comment on our facebook call or send us an e-mail, booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> now on c-span2 we bring you booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. here are some programs to look out for this weekend. at 5:00 p.m. eastern, ben shapiro argues liberals believe their competition discouraging political debate. at 2:00 a.m. michele alexander opines that policies from the 70s for and acted to push back gains made during the...
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all those influences shaped us. in this last chapter i present if in fact we were building a new mount rushmore or adding on to mount rushmore who would be on mount rushmore? maybe nobody is worthy of it in your opinion. i don't mean politicians only. if you had an opportunity to put three or four five people on mount rushmore would they be and why? i put three new people on mount rushmore. i kick the four out of there. i know you are pleased about that. i add three and i explain why i had the three that i do. i use those three people to make some points about our society, our history, who we are as a people. and just those that you are aware i am totally balanced in this book, i have a chapter on politicians and include myself in that of course and i call that chapter crabs' and prairie dogs. where i come from we don't know a lot about crabs but we have seen baskets of them. i make a point about -- i use the analogy of crabs and prairie dogs. where i come from people know about prairie dogs. if you ever watched pra
all those influences shaped us. in this last chapter i present if in fact we were building a new mount rushmore or adding on to mount rushmore who would be on mount rushmore? maybe nobody is worthy of it in your opinion. i don't mean politicians only. if you had an opportunity to put three or four five people on mount rushmore would they be and why? i put three new people on mount rushmore. i kick the four out of there. i know you are pleased about that. i add three and i explain why i had the...
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every one of us is so great the american teachers who taught us. so why couldn't we give colleges and schools instead of wasting billions and billions in wars which in the end resulted in iran hitting us. >> host: you write bat recent survey of american and afghan soldiers. this is how the afghans view the americans. they always shout and yell and they are crazy. u.s. soldiers swear at us constantly, saying f.-u, their arrogance sickenes us. they don't care about civilian casualties. they pee all over, right in front of civilians, including females. >> guest: peter, quote what the american soldiers said. >> host: this is what the americans thought of the afghan forces. they are turds. i we're better off without them. i don't trust locals. i would never like to admit that iraqis are smarter but they're einsteins compared to afghans. these guys only seem to care about their own tribes. >> guest: back to the tribes. they're right. so, you see how interesting. this is an american survey conducted in washington. and this gives us an insight into two all
every one of us is so great the american teachers who taught us. so why couldn't we give colleges and schools instead of wasting billions and billions in wars which in the end resulted in iran hitting us. >> host: you write bat recent survey of american and afghan soldiers. this is how the afghans view the americans. they always shout and yell and they are crazy. u.s. soldiers swear at us constantly, saying f.-u, their arrogance sickenes us. they don't care about civilian casualties. they...
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their argumented made no sense to us. such well-worn phrases as tax cuts pay for themselves, will we'll be welcomed as libattors, climb change is improving and government-run health care doesn't work, were repeated over and over again republican arguments seem as incomprehensible to democrats were as much misguided to them. the free market principles they took as given conflicted with the information we took every day from our constituents and the economists we consulted. news speed media preoccupation with lack of civility missed the point. i traveled withcongressional members to afghan and enjoyed they're company. we worked out together in the house gym. still more socializing with each other would not have breached khasm. congress is crippled from making bipartisan, strategic, public policy decisions. this is our greatest institutional weakness and defies simplistic cures. congress today is deeply divided because to each side, the opinions of the other make no sense. and, therefore, cannot be honestly held. interest gr
their argumented made no sense to us. such well-worn phrases as tax cuts pay for themselves, will we'll be welcomed as libattors, climb change is improving and government-run health care doesn't work, were repeated over and over again republican arguments seem as incomprehensible to democrats were as much misguided to them. the free market principles they took as given conflicted with the information we took every day from our constituents and the economists we consulted. news speed media...
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tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> i have been trying to find a new lens, a new way of studying presidential character. twelve years ago erodible, first ladies and thought that it would be important to understand the presidents from the different angle. when the study the person that did them the best. for example, what possibly could die as an historian contribute to the body of knowledge of lincoln or george washington? pretty much everything that could be you written probably has been written. the greatest historians have spent years poring through the letters and the evidence to produce his book of lincoln or this book in the hundreds of booker washington. my thought was when i looked at the person who knew them the best, the first lady be as historians have largely ignored the role of the first lady as they have largely ignored the role of mistresses. i suspect a lot of my colleagues and to be aldermen. most historians, as i always say to were not educated in matters of the heart or the hear
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playing cards used to be blank on one side, you used to write your name on the other side to identify yourself. at the university of pennsylvania you could use them to get into class, that was your id was a playing card that was blank on one side. so my brain goes like this: you have a playing card that i can link now to john wilkes booth, and now i have a playing card that i can potentially link to the second assassin, charles giew toe, and now i have a thread. and i can weave that thread and pull it assassin to assassin. and, obviously, this is where the fiction takes over, but i start thinking about playing cards. hearts and diamonds and clubs and spades, we all know them. but they're symbols, and they mean something. they're not just there for decoration. you look at a dollar bill, it has a pyramid with an all-seeing eye on top, right? it's a symbol. they put it there for a reason. it doesn't mean that the free masons are there to eat your babies and kill you, right? but it does mean something. and it's the same with playing cards. and if you want to know what hearts and diamonds
playing cards used to be blank on one side, you used to write your name on the other side to identify yourself. at the university of pennsylvania you could use them to get into class, that was your id was a playing card that was blank on one side. so my brain goes like this: you have a playing card that i can link now to john wilkes booth, and now i have a playing card that i can potentially link to the second assassin, charles giew toe, and now i have a thread. and i can weave that thread and...
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we have a few people here with us and we're happy to have c-span join us. thank you very much to be here, and illinois channel is here and liz daryl from the tribune, literary book section, is with us, and we appreciate all of them being here, also voice of america is covering us today as well. just before we go on, should tell you all that while we're live -- and this is not for c-span unfortunately but while we're live you can e-mail in questions. we hope you will. give your first name and where you're from and we'll shout out and try to get it on air as quakily as we can. if you're watching the archives you can always ask us if we have signed books or leftovers. don't want to be with the screen play of the lincoln movie after it gets to be an oscar winner and you don't have it signed. so get it now while you can. and if you're on c-span and would like to be part of us i hope you will by getting to virtual book signing.net and leave your e-mail and be part of the virtual book signing family. also, i should let you know that next month we're not going to h
we have a few people here with us and we're happy to have c-span join us. thank you very much to be here, and illinois channel is here and liz daryl from the tribune, literary book section, is with us, and we appreciate all of them being here, also voice of america is covering us today as well. just before we go on, should tell you all that while we're live -- and this is not for c-span unfortunately but while we're live you can e-mail in questions. we hope you will. give your first name and...
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there are a variety of uses beyond what coca-cola uses for flavoring. another hypocrisy of the convention -- another hypocrisy that ricardo points to in this book is related to the conventions. i was struck reading your book. i had not realized this coach relationship between art slinger who was the u.s. drug czar for decades and the president of coca-cola. vice president of coca-cola. very cozy relationship. so in the in the 1961 u.n. single convention on narcotic drugs and the subsequent 1988 convention make coca growing at a criminal offense under international law. indigenous peoples across the andes were told that the traditional practice of coca leaf chewing and drinking coca tea with a longer be tolerated by the international community. and it's important to point out that the u.s. was the architect of these treaties. certainly have support from other countries. today, they have key allies in the effort to maintain the treaties such as russia, japan, sweden. but it really is a u.s. instrument. so coca, along with cannabis and opium, became the ma
there are a variety of uses beyond what coca-cola uses for flavoring. another hypocrisy of the convention -- another hypocrisy that ricardo points to in this book is related to the conventions. i was struck reading your book. i had not realized this coach relationship between art slinger who was the u.s. drug czar for decades and the president of coca-cola. vice president of coca-cola. very cozy relationship. so in the in the 1961 u.n. single convention on narcotic drugs and the subsequent 1988...
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this document does not use the word freedom, does not use the word democracy it is said talked-about regime types or radical islam instead accidents -- access to persian gulf will and is vital to national security interest. period. and this context matters to do more with hussain did not threaten the destruction of oil for those in american politics with a long-term history. at this point* advised presidents for years the more closest friends and upon hearing this news contemplating give back to washington and told the president, pulled him into the office and close the door and said "i know you're aware of the fact this has all the ingredients that has brought down three of the last five presidents, hostage crisis, by the banks and a full-fledged economic recession caused by $40 oil quote. it was hardly embraced across the board at the same time the congressional opposition it was conducted at of the true sense of concern. the senate majority leader the risk of active american intervention was great they include the and known number of casualties of greatly disrupted oil supply wide
this document does not use the word freedom, does not use the word democracy it is said talked-about regime types or radical islam instead accidents -- access to persian gulf will and is vital to national security interest. period. and this context matters to do more with hussain did not threaten the destruction of oil for those in american politics with a long-term history. at this point* advised presidents for years the more closest friends and upon hearing this news contemplating give back...
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the iron gate clubhouse was still an operating base of the us army 82nd airborne. the young paratroopers steered with curiosity. waiting out front was a more fully face, slide between a blue t-shirt and if the truckers had come was becoming a force is more powerful. sean penn had arrived in haiti \90{l1}s{l0}\'90{l1}s{l0} after the quake, spearheading an ngo. for a few days the relief organization distributed water filters and medical relief here and there, that armed officer was invited inside the weather everyone on the team, soldiers were most excited about penn's after. both actors live in a tall white content restructure tax safety behind clubhouse which protected them from the elements. he walked to the actress downhill towards the tent of other get the patrick lindsey island ongoing medical needs. u.n. and haitian police emphasize the need to protect women and girls in sexual violence but finally he led them to ridge overlooking the golf course but cameras he called out, drunken journalists before thousands of -- directing journalists before thousands. i'm c
the iron gate clubhouse was still an operating base of the us army 82nd airborne. the young paratroopers steered with curiosity. waiting out front was a more fully face, slide between a blue t-shirt and if the truckers had come was becoming a force is more powerful. sean penn had arrived in haiti \90{l1}s{l0}\'90{l1}s{l0} after the quake, spearheading an ngo. for a few days the relief organization distributed water filters and medical relief here and there, that armed officer was invited inside...
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it is a tragic thing but the leverage the church uses there used to be children there would have them on the ship and hubbard had a theory that children are not different from adults they are just small. [laughter] therefore they should be treated as you retreat and adults so when a child misbehaves he came up with one punishment was to put them in the chain locker for the anchor is stored it is cold and dark and they would be said that not allowed out to go to the bass ever go to sleep but put in there for days or weeks he actually put a deaf girl down they're hoping she would regain her hearing. the treatment of children became a huge issue early on and then it was decided we can't have kids here. there was a ranch they built their own dormitories and gave themselves schooling with very little adults supervision. it came to pass the decision was made no more kids that if you get pregnant you have the choice, you could leave the sea-org with the consequences losing your ties tear families and very little to look forward to and the sense of losing eternal salvation or the send off to
it is a tragic thing but the leverage the church uses there used to be children there would have them on the ship and hubbard had a theory that children are not different from adults they are just small. [laughter] therefore they should be treated as you retreat and adults so when a child misbehaves he came up with one punishment was to put them in the chain locker for the anchor is stored it is cold and dark and they would be said that not allowed out to go to the bass ever go to sleep but put...
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a lot of us thought that obama would address of this, and he is not. you know, guantanamo remains open, but if someone has written an op-ed in the new york times, the people at guantanamo are really better off than if there were brought to the united states to serve in prisons here in this country, given what has happened to guantanamo because of human rights watch and the red cross keeping an eye on things. this tremendous anger throughout the middle east and north africa , and that is why americans take a certain amount of risk when they serve overseas and what has just happened in algeria is just another reminder of the peril. all of that is within the context of activity that has been taking place for the last ten years. again, it is about the overuse, i think, of military violence. we have a situation right now with regard to the drones. we need a legal architecture for use of the drones. resetting an incredible precedent. israel has drones. hezbollah has at least one from that overflew israel. what happens when russia starts using them against fo
a lot of us thought that obama would address of this, and he is not. you know, guantanamo remains open, but if someone has written an op-ed in the new york times, the people at guantanamo are really better off than if there were brought to the united states to serve in prisons here in this country, given what has happened to guantanamo because of human rights watch and the red cross keeping an eye on things. this tremendous anger throughout the middle east and north africa , and that is why...
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well it could be a useful tool the more often than not used as evasion. >> united states has not won a war since 1945 and it looks like vietnam no difference between republicans and democrats except ron paul. to pull out of the mideast that what are we there for oil or minerals or the heroin trade i am concerned about this. world war ii is actually in history rules were too is an anomaly does not been a lot that leads to the total surrender particularly getting involved in now with negotiation or some new power arrangement some coalition we look back when there was a surrender ceremony where the emperor of japan says i surrender but we have not won awards since then it depends what you mean. i don't know. i could think of small words but it is not small to the people fighting and. if we're in the middle east and pulling out of a lot of troops i cannot foresee a time when the united states or any large power depending on this society would bugout leaving it to chance to go from the isolationist stance we are stuck there. unless you consider that guinness import of the middle east brid
well it could be a useful tool the more often than not used as evasion. >> united states has not won a war since 1945 and it looks like vietnam no difference between republicans and democrats except ron paul. to pull out of the mideast that what are we there for oil or minerals or the heroin trade i am concerned about this. world war ii is actually in history rules were too is an anomaly does not been a lot that leads to the total surrender particularly getting involved in now with...
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we need a legal architecture for the use of the drones. israel has drones, hezbollah at least has one and they have the supply to them. what happens when russia starts using them in the soviet republics or china. >> too many things they do without thinking to the national missile defense. we could develop national missile defense. it doesn't seem to be slowing anyone down but they still pull the money into it every year because we can do it instead of having the missile defense and get serious about cutting back strategic offensive arms. they haven't been address to. there's a lot of if we have the control that clinton abolished because jesse helms made them nervous and they can address those things. the arms control lobby in the country was quite effective we don't see much of their activity anymore. >> they've been very successful after world war ii the difficulty in iraq and afghanistan. >> the party in afghanistan is the trying to do with the soviets try to do where they take a page out of the playbook which is you come in and try to b
we need a legal architecture for the use of the drones. israel has drones, hezbollah at least has one and they have the supply to them. what happens when russia starts using them in the soviet republics or china. >> too many things they do without thinking to the national missile defense. we could develop national missile defense. it doesn't seem to be slowing anyone down but they still pull the money into it every year because we can do it instead of having the missile defense and get...
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the course of a lifetime and what her legacy asks of us now. who was rosa parks before the boycott? she had a life history of being rebellious as she put it. she was raised by her mother and grandparents who taught her to stand up for herself. grandfather was a follower of martha starving. there was no education provided black children past 6 grade so great sacrifice her mother sent her to midwife school for girls in montgomery. roselle was reserved girl. a bit of a goody 2 shoes her friends 5, who followed this will's prohibitions against dancing, movies, makeup and short hair. but she had a feisty side. when she and her brother were threatened by a white boule, she picked up a brick and threatened to hit him. he ducked. when a young boy pushed her in front of his mother she pushed back. when the mother threatened to kill her, she said he pushed me and i didn't want him pushing me. parks fell in love with raymond parks in 1931, the first real activist i ever met, she said. when they married raymond parks was working to free the nine scottsboro
the course of a lifetime and what her legacy asks of us now. who was rosa parks before the boycott? she had a life history of being rebellious as she put it. she was raised by her mother and grandparents who taught her to stand up for herself. grandfather was a follower of martha starving. there was no education provided black children past 6 grade so great sacrifice her mother sent her to midwife school for girls in montgomery. roselle was reserved girl. a bit of a goody 2 shoes her friends 5,...
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it's incumbent upon all of us to do one or both. and no one could possibly be a more important decision than the 100 united states senators, each with their own number, each with the recognition they've entrusted to do all that we can to keep it. thank you all very, very much. [applause] >> david, do we have time for questions? >> senator, thank you for your remarks. you mention to hazard a guess to a happen in the next 36 hours to amend the filibuster rule. if you get away from the filibuster, where if you said you're going to to do it, you have to stand your ground and do it. hasn't happened and i were threatening filibusters of females is holding a business in the senate. >> it's an excellent question and it's ironic you're talking about the senate today because they are deliberating very issues. alan was our parliamentarian for many, many years, a man i turn to daley for advice when i was figuring he would be the best person to address the question. i'm not even sure when they totally agree on this because it is, so central and
it's incumbent upon all of us to do one or both. and no one could possibly be a more important decision than the 100 united states senators, each with their own number, each with the recognition they've entrusted to do all that we can to keep it. thank you all very, very much. [applause] >> david, do we have time for questions? >> senator, thank you for your remarks. you mention to hazard a guess to a happen in the next 36 hours to amend the filibuster rule. if you get away from the...
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it's incumbent upon all of us, all of us to do one or both and he no one could possibly be in a more important decision to lead the way then the 100 united states senators, each with their own number, each with a the recognition that they have entrusted to do all that we can to keep it. thank you all very very much. [applause] [applause] thank you very much. do we have time for questions? yes. >> senator thank you for your remarks. you mentioned the explosion of cloture votes and i am curious to know whether you would be willing to happen a guess as to what will happen in the next 36 hours to amend the filibuster rule and if you could explain how it is that we got away from the classical version of the filibuster where if you said you were going to do that you had to stand your ground and do it? it hasn't happened and i don't know how long and now we are threatening filibusters for e-mails and it is holding up the business of the senate. >> it's an excellent question and it's ironically would be talking about the senate today because we are deliberating these very issues on the senat
it's incumbent upon all of us, all of us to do one or both and he no one could possibly be in a more important decision to lead the way then the 100 united states senators, each with their own number, each with a the recognition that they have entrusted to do all that we can to keep it. thank you all very very much. [applause] [applause] thank you very much. do we have time for questions? yes. >> senator thank you for your remarks. you mentioned the explosion of cloture votes and i am...